It includes Bo Levi Mitchell as the CFL team’s quarterback, even though the Stampeders GM/president has yet to re-sign the talented Texan with the league’s free-agency period set to open Tuesday at 10 a.m.

Mitchell had seven workouts with NFL teams after guiding the Stampeders to the Grey Cup victory over the Ottawa Redblacks in Edmonton.

The QB’s hope was to find the perfect landing spot in four-down football.

But he has yet to sign an NFL contract, with speculation now that he’ll return to the CFL.

Come Tuesday morning, he’ll have plenty of suitors — with the Toronto Argonauts, the Edmonton Eskimos and the Saskatchewan Roughriders all believed to be on that list — but Hufnagel hopes to corral the league’s top player with a deal of his own.

And it’ll take massive cash — think 700k massive.

“I have a budget with Bo Levi (in it),” Hufnagel said. “Now, I said, ‘I’m optimistic,’ but does it fit the budget? We’ll have to see.”

Indeed, it may take upwards of three-quarters-of-million dollars to bring back Mitchell, with Mike Reilly, the league’s other top quarterback, headed to the B.C. Lions — reportedly by TSN’s Ryan Rishaug — for $700,000 a year for four seasons.

It’ll likely take top dollar — as in more than being offered anyone else — to ensure the return of the CFL’s top player this time around.

“(Seven-hundred thousand) quite significant — no question about it,” Hufnagel said. “I have a good number (being offered to Mitchell). Hopefully, that number works.”

The Argos have reportedly put together a package that includes 750K per season for Mitchell.

“It’s difficult,” Hufnagel continued. “It’s been a very confusing, stressful type of couple of weeks. But you just have to deal with it — that’s the way the game is right now. That’s why I’m leaning towards being optimistic that Bo will be a Stampeder and conducting business as if he will be.”

Word is Mitchell was close to inking a deal with the NFL’s Denver Broncos in the last few weeks, but they never reached a contract that satisfied both parties.

The veteran signal-caller, who’s got six seasons under centre in the CFL, has said publicly that he wouldn’t take a flyer on an NFL deal if it meant holding a clipboard and not getting a realistic shot at playing time south of the border.

The 2018 Grey Cup Most Outstanding Player had NFL workouts with the Broncos, the Minnesota Vikings, the Chicago Bears, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Buffalo Bills, the New York Giants and the Indianapolis Colts.

“I would expect that if he was going to sign an NFL contract, it would’ve been done,” said Hufnagel of Mitchell. “But what I expected and what’s actually going on behind close doors, I’m not sure.

“I’m not quite sure about him signing down south. I don’t think the interest is as strong today as it was possibly when he was doing all the (NFL) workouts,” continued Hufnagel, adding he talks to Mitchell’s agent every other day. “I just think right now we need to establish what he wants and who’s going to set the bar out there with the quarterbacks.”

If that doesn’t happen, just where will the Stampeders turn?

The other free-agent QBs who are considered headliners in the league are 32-year-old Trevor Harris, who’s spent the last three seasons as a hot-and-cold commodity with the Redblacks, and 30-year-old Zach Collaros, who’s bounced from the Argonauts to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to the Roughriders during his up-and-down seven-year CFL career.

They’re certainly not Mitchell, who’s just 28 and, by far, the most consistent, successful and talented of the QB bunch — and, for that matter, of all CFL weapons.

Mitchell, of course, just won a second CFL most outstanding player honour and added his second Grey Cup as a starter and the title game’s MVP accolade.

The championship season also saw the 28-year-old QB finish 356-of-585 for 5,124 passing yards and 35 touchdowns against 14 interceptions.

The TD count is the highest of his seven-year CFL career, and his yards compiled through the air is the second highest of his career. Back in 2016, he tossed for 5,385 yards in winning the league’s MOP for the first time.

Then there’s the two pivots the Stampeders currently have under contract in Nick Arbuckle and Montell Cozart.

“We have two young guys that we like that we think our capable and very promising,” Hufnagel said. “So if things went south with Bo, I think we still have the skill at the position to win football games.”

No matter the promise, though, neither have a proven track record in the CFL.

So the pressure seems to be on Hufnagel to ensure Mitchell is right back in the saddle with the Stamps.

But it will take big money.

Much more than the $450,000-plus he made last season.

Comparatively, Collaros made $430,000 last season — about the same as Harris did with the Redblacks — while Reilly’s contract with the Esks was believed to be $500,000 in base salary.

“There’s no pressure (right now) because Bo hasn’t signed anywhere,” Hufnagel added. “Like I said, I’m optimistic — I have a plan, and hopefully, it works.”